By Susan Haigh/Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The ease of relapsing into opioid addiction has led a growing number of states to help residents make it clear to medical professionals they do not want to be prescribed the powerful painkillers. Connecticut and Alaska are two of the latest considering legislation this year that would
[continue reading…]
Category: Health Care
GOP health law could impact Idaho exchange enrollment
By Kimberlee Kruesi/Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A plan from congressional Republicans to replace President Barack Obama’s health care law could result in a mass exodus from the Idaho’s online health insurance exchange, state officials said Friday. Almost 60,000 Idahoans could leave the exchange by 2020 under the new proposal due to the loss
[continue reading…]
Idaho lawmakers introduce new health care plan
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho House legislative leaders have introduced a last-minute health care plan to provide basic services the state’s neediest population. The plan has three main features. First, it would launch a new program for uninsured Idahoans or for those Medicaid to receive to receive coordinated care services. Second, hospitals would be directed
[continue reading…]
Already in peril, rural hospitals unsure on health care bill
By Russ Bynum, Rebecca Santana and Kathleen Foody/Associated Press CLAXTON, Ga. (AP) — Talmadge Yarbrough had just sat down at his desk and opened a box of pecans when he let out a gasp that could have been his last breath. He’d gone into cardiac arrest in his office, a co-worker called 911, and an
[continue reading…]
FDA OKs new Novartis drug for type of advanced breast cancer
By Linda A. Johnson/ AP Medical Writer TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. regulators have approved a new drug as an initial treatment for postmenopausal women with a type of advanced breast cancer. The drug, called Kisqali and developed by Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG, is a pill that works to slow the spread of cancer by blocking
[continue reading…]
Most Americans don’t know how much sugar is healthy
Journal Staff SAN FRANCISCO — Healthline.com has completed a survey of over 3,000 Americans on their attitudes, habits and knowledge on the effects of sugar on the body. Using the American Heart Association’s recommended daily allowances for sugar consumption as a reference point, Healthline’s survey found that most people are eating too much sugar but
[continue reading…]
Proposal to repeal abortion laws heads to Idaho House
By Kimberlee Kruesi/Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A proposal to reverse two anti-abortion laws in Idaho is headed to the House floor for debate after being approved on Monday at the committee level by lawmakers hesitant to loosen the state’s tough anti-abortion stance. Earlier this year, a federal judge agreed to give the Idaho
[continue reading…]
Bill telling women abortion can be halted introduced
By Kimberlee Kruesi/Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho Senate panel introduced legislation on Wednesday requiring the state to distribute information telling women that a drug-induced abortion may be halted halfway through, despite physicians warning there’s not enough science backing up that claim. Sen. Lori Den Hartog, a Republican from Meridian, says the goal
[continue reading…]
Primary care bill targets Idaho’s Medicaid gap population
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho House panel has introduced legislation that would create a new state program designed to provide basic health care to Idaho adults who currently don’t have health insurance. The Spokesman-Review (http://bit.ly/2lCjNZJ ) reports that House Health and Welfare Committee Chairman Fred Wood, a Republican from Burley, said Monday that his
[continue reading…]
Idaho to stop enforcing telemedicine abortion bans
By Kimberlee Kruesi/Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Women will no longer be banned from receiving abortion-inducing medication through telemedicine in Idaho under a new agreement. Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands announced Monday that the lawsuit settlement lifts unnecessary burdens on women seeking safe abortions. “Women in Idaho deserve the
[continue reading…]